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Tulane Students Report Pot Shortage

March 19, 2008 RSS Feed Print
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As if there weren't any bigger problems in the world, Tulane students are reporting a weed shortage on campus, the Hullabaloo writes. Supposedly brought on by a police bust last week, the deficit has students struggling to find replacement dealers and waiting for things to return to the way things were. "Maybe once all the drama blows over things will be back to normal," a resourceful freshman said. "It's really not that big of a deal. I mean, we live in New Orleans. Just because there isn't weed on campus doesn't mean it's hard to get trashed whenever you want."

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As a former Tulane student, it was always the out-of-state guys who couldn't deal with the rigorous academic load and needed to smoke weed to get by. "Oh, I'm so stressed with finals..... gimme a joint." Not so for the rest of us. Pot heads need to get a life.

Tony of CA 10:10PM March 11, 2010

What Drew Dickson fails to mention above is that she is the Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper in question. This is not surprising, given that the story commited the journalistically ethical flaw of depending on anonymous sources and also committed the unforgiveable journalistic flaw of reporting on an issue that is irrelevant to the mission of the fine univeristy the newspaper purports to cover.

A Proud and Concerned Alumnus of NM 3:18PM April 06, 2008

"As if there weren't any bigger problems in the world"?

It just so happens the other headlines next to the weed article were about how Tulane's janitorial staff doesn't get any health benefits and about how Tulane still has trouble recruiting a racially diverse student body.

And no, I think talking about the drug problems on college campuses shouldn't be pushed into the background. Just because the Hullabaloo chose to cover the story from a different, more interesting and relevant angle, is no reason to criticize it.

Drew Dickson of LA 9:52AM March 23, 2008

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